Quote Collection
Dying to Live – Lettie B. Cowman
You must die in order to live. You must refuse to consult your own ease and well-being. You must be crucified, not only in desires and habits which are sinful, but in many more which appear innocent and right.
– Lettie B. Cowman –
Streams in the Desert
Living for self or for Christ? – Ian Thomas
To live “to and for yourself” is to “walk after the flesh”! To live “to and for Christ” is to “walk after the Spirit”!
– Ian Thomas –
God pity us – Leonard Ravenhill
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God is with, for, and in us – Robert Baer
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
– Robert Baer –
Something better than riches and gold – Hudson Taylor
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
Don’t despise small beginnings – W. Phillip Keller
God did not, does not, and will not despise the small beginning. It is essentially His method and manner of working.
– W. Phillip Keller –
from Expendable, page 151
Treasures of Wisdom – HB Charles Jr.
The treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are found only in Christ have been cashed in for the worthless trinkets of sinful folly. Many are playing marbles with diamonds.
– HB Charles Jr. –
Faith is more than thinking – WT Purkiser
Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.
– WT Purkiser –
Importance of Repentance – Curtis Hutson
There is no doubt that all men from Adam on have had to repent in order to have a right relationship with God. The importance of repentance is demonstrated by the fact that men of every biblical age preached it.
– Curtis Hutson –